Experts raise alarm over threats to water quality in Niger

Experts person expressed interest implicit the expanding threats posed by pollution, clime alteration and different quality activities to h2o resources successful Niger State, calling for urgent enactment to support h2o bodies from further degradation.

The informing was issued during a sensitisation programme connected the extortion and conservation of groundwater prime organised by the Future Earth Water Science Cluster Programme successful collaboration with the Federal University of Technology (FUT), Minna, and the Niger State Ministry of Water Resources.

The programme, held astatine the Tagwai Dam site, brought unneurotic students of FUT Model School and Bosso Secondary School to beforehand biology consciousness and promote liable h2o conservation practices.

Speaking earlier during the lawsuit astatine FUT Model School successful Minna, Dr Dan Hassan said that though astir 71 per cent of the Earth’s aboveground is covered by water, lone 2.5 per cent is freshwater, portion little than 1 per cent is readily disposable for quality use.

Dr Hassan, a retired manager of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) astatine the Federal Ministry o...